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Bulletin board
A bulletin board, also called a noticeboard or pin board, is a surface for posting public messages, often made of cork, used for items for sale, events, and announcements.
Bulletin board system
A bulletin board system (BBS) was a computer people dialed into over phone lines to post messages, exchange files, and play games, flourishing from 1978 to the mid-1990s.
Bulletin Debate
The Bulletin Debate was an 1892 exchange of poems in The Bulletin between Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson over realism versus romanticism in depicting the Australian bush.
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal founded in 1995 by the Association for Symbolic Logic, publishing accessible accounts of developments in logic.
Bulletin School
The Bulletin school was the group of Australian writers and artists associated with the weekly magazine The Bulletin, founded in Sydney in 1880, known for bush realism.
Bulletproof (1996 film)
Bulletproof is a 1996 American action comedy film directed by Ernest Dickerson, starring Damon Wayans as an undercover cop, Adam Sandler, and James Caan, released by Universal Pictures.
Bulletproof (musician)
Bulletproof, real name Jay Monds, was a New Zealand drum and bass producer and DJ who co-founded Cyanide Recordings, won a 2010 music award, and died in 2022.
Bulletproof (TV series)
Bulletproof is a British action crime drama on Sky One (2018-2021) created by Noel Clarke, Nick Love, and Ashley Walters, starring Clarke and Walters as undercover NCA partners Bishop and Pike in London; three seasons, including the three-part South Africa-set finale.
Bulletproof glass
Bulletproof glass, more accurately called bullet-resistant or ballistic glass, is a transparent laminate of glass and plastic layers that stops or slows bullets, used in vehicles, banks, and government buildings.
Bulletproof Monk
Bulletproof Monk is a 2003 American action-comedy-fantasy film directed by Paul Hunter, starring Chow Yun-Fat as an ageless monk guarding a powerful scroll and Seann William Scott as the pickpocket chosen as his successor.
Bulletproof vest
A bulletproof vest, also called a bullet-resistant vest, is body armor of layered high-strength fibers or rigid plates that stops bullets, though impacts can still bruise skin or break ribs.
Bullets Over Broadway (1994 film)
Bullets Over Broadway, Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath's 1994 backstage comedy starring John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, and Chazz Palminteri; seven Oscar nominations, Wiest won, later a 2014 Broadway musical.
Bullets Over Broadway (musical)
Bullets Over Broadway is Woody Allen's 2014 Broadway jukebox musical, also called Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical, based on his 1994 film, directed by Susan Stroman at the St. James Theatre; it ran 156 performances, earned six Tony nominations, and closed at a loss.
Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm: People Can Fly and Epic Games' 2011 first-person shooter (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) built around the Skillshot scoring system, energy leash, and kick; remastered as Full Clip Edition with Duke Nukem DLC in 2017, followed by Bulletstorm VR in 2024.
Bullett Raja (बुलेट राजा)
Bullett Raja (बुलेट राजा), 2013 Hindi action film by Tigmanshu Dhulia starring Saif Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Jimmy Shergill; UP mafia-politics gangster drama, released 29 November 2013, a box-office flop.
Bullfighter
Bullfighter: performer who fights and kills bulls in the Spanish corrida, led by the matador in the traje de luces; three tercios, six bulls, three matadors; now legal in only seven countries.
Bullfighting
Bullfighting: ritual human-bull combat in an arena (corrida, tourada, course camarguaise), six-bull Spanish format with matadors, picadors, banderilleros; legal in seven countries, heritage-protected in Spain and France, contested on animal-welfare grounds.
Bullhead City, Arizona
Bullhead City, Arizona: Colorado River city in Mohave County across from Laughlin, Nevada; incorporated 1984, 2020 population 41,348, named for a bull-shaped rock now under Lake Mohave.
Bullingdon Club
The Bullingdon Club is an exclusive all-male dining society for Oxford students, founded in 1780 as a cricket club.
Bullion
Bullion is precious metal, most commonly gold, silver, platinum, or palladium, authenticated to a specified fineness and valued at the market price of its metal content, in bars and coins.
Bullitt
Bullitt (1968), Peter Yates crime thriller starring Steve McQueen as SFPD lieutenant Frank Bullitt, based on Robert L. Pike's Mute Witness; won the 1969 Oscar for Best Film Editing and is famous for its San Francisco Mustang-versus-Charger car chase.
Bullmastiff
Bullmastiff: 19th-century British guard dog from Mastiff-Bulldog crosses (60/40), the Gamekeeper's Night Dog; AKC Working Group, 110-130 lb males, brindle/fawn/red coat, black mask, 7-9 year lifespan.
Bullmoose Gas Field
Bullmoose Gas Field is a sour natural gas field in the Rocky Mountain Foothills of northeastern British Columbia, about 103 km southwest of Dawson Creek, first producing in 1980.
Bullocky
"Bullocky" is a poem by the Australian poet Judith Wright, first published in The Bulletin in 1944, which casts a bullock driver as an "old Moses" leading his team to the Promised Land.
Bullous impetigo
Bullous impetigo: localized blistering form of impetigo caused by exfoliative toxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus cleaving desmoglein 1; about 30% of impetigo cases, mainly infants, treated with oral or topical antibiotics.
Bullous insect bite reaction
Bullous insect bite reaction, or bullous arthropod bite reaction: a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to insect saliva causing large tense pruritic blisters on exposed skin; linked to CLL and other hematologic cancers; treated with steroids and antihistamines.
Bullous keratopathy
Bullous keratopathy is an eye condition in which blisters form in the cornea's surface layer because the corneal endothelium fails, often after cataract surgery or from Fuchs dystrophy.
Bullous lichen planus
Bullous lichen planus, a rare variant of lichen planus (ICD-10 L43.1), forms blisters on pre-existing LP lesions; unlike lichen planus pemphigoides it has no autoantibodies and negative immunofluorescence.
Bullous pemphigoid
Bullous pemphigoid is a chronic autoimmune blistering skin disease, the most common in many countries, causing tense blisters and intense itching in older adults, treated with corticosteroids.
Bullpen Capital
Bullpen Capital is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Paul Martino, Duncan Davidson, and Richard Melmon, specializing in post-seed investing between seed and Series A rounds.